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The Biggest Expiration Ever: What You Need to Know

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0:00lesson

Options expirations and volatility compression

  • Biggest expiration outside of quarterly opex ever
  • Volume keeps doing this
  • Impact of expirations matters more than ever
  • Macro events like midterms and interest rates influence flows
  • Important flows coming up this week
2:00lesson

Vulma and veta in options expirations

  • Vulma is percent change in v
  • Veta is per day change in vega
  • Vega compression as time approaches expiration
  • Dealers get longer vega as time passes
  • Vulma is structural phenomenon
4:02lesson

Calendar spreads and volatility dynamics

  • Dealers sell vega as expiration approaches
  • Calendar spreads are great now
  • Short O expiration, long Nove expiration
  • Second O disappears, everyone is long
  • V compression reflexively compresses more
5:50lesson

Macro vs structural risks and dispersion moves

  • Midterm elections and postmidterm realities
  • Contested election in back half of year
  • Push pull between macro and structural risks
  • Structural mechanical flows at odds
  • Driving dispersion moves and market volatility

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